Comments on: Windows Home Server – Stage 1

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:08:01 +0000

Daniel: Very true, I do love Linux, but they have built a very good product on top of Windows Server 2003

Ovidiu: It is an Alienware case when I bought it, it was an Alienware case from 2000 but I gutted the machine since it has long died. I will be posting info about the setup and the all the info people request!

By: Ovidiu

Ovidiu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:50:26 +0000

It’s funny that both the WHS blog and the on10 blog link to you and say that it’s an Alienware case

I have a case like that myself and it’s 100% Chieftec (http://www.chieftec.com/dg-01sld-u.html).

You prolly got the Alienware logo from the fan…

Anyway, good job on the server and maybe you can post some power consumption charts.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:08:47 +0000

Nice! I wish my home built WHS looked as good as that. Alienware with space for 11 drives is awesome!

It’s true, WHS is a great tool for a home network even if you love linux.

Good stuff!

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:24:21 +0000

3baid: Gigabyte P35, its a really good mother board for all the ports.

K: yup!

Sinner: I’m thinking about getting it!

maryam: I will keep updating, now I have a few ideas in mind for it!

N: yup, all OSes

punky: hhahaha! not that much power! loool

K: yup, hahaha!

Shaymaa: hehehehe!

DVLz: 1) I think there is ample cooling in the case, it does have hot-swappable drives for sure. Got one surge protector for it.

By: N.

N. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:09:23 +0000

Thanks K that makes sense

By: DVLz

DVLz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:31:44 +0000

few recommendations to help you with your project

1- needs a very good cooling system for performance and protecting your HDD from failure. Most external HDDs fail due to cooling problems, especially when many use Aluminum cases which they say absorbs heat and cools your HDD which is false statement. When heat builds up inside the case you start losing data and you have a slow performance and the life of your HDD slowly decreases. Now too much cold could kill your entire PC and that I mean freezing point.

2- I was going to recommend using hot-swappable bay especially for maintenance and upgrading, but after looking at your Alienware case I don’t think you would need it.

3- make sure you use something like Surge Protector, cause you don’t want to fry your server when electricity power fluctuate. This is a simple backup wont cost you much.

from my own experience HDD capacity is never enough especially if your a leecher. Good luck with your project

By: Shaymaa

Shaymaa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:41:26 +0000

Oh, this is really gonna be awesome!

LOL @ “Electricity is last year .. This year its all about water, and we support them by not running liquid cooling.”

By: K.TheKuwaiti

K.TheKuwaiti — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:03:48 +0000

N.:
The auto-backup/restore is only supported on windows machines .. you could setup a network share and auto-sync other systems tho.

punky:
Electricity is last year .. This year its all about water, and we support them by not running liquid cooling.

By: punky

punky — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:46:02 +0000

the word of the day is “tarsheed”, Z you are pulling way to much electricity from the grid, and i get very aggravated without A/C:P

By: N.

N. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:25:27 +0000

Hmm, does it support all OSs? or just windows OS?